Evaluation Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

There are a variety of differant social groups which media products are aimed at, teenagers, middle aged, old etc etc. Our product is aimed at mostly teenagers and there are several reasons for this. Firstly the age of the actors is key in determining who your target group is. Our piece is acted out by two 17 year olds so obviously teenagers is the most obvious group to aim for. This means the audience is then able to relate more closely to the characters in the piece of film and this is an idea we held throughout our piece. When we first see kourtney appear on screen it is very obvious she is drunk and has been to a party the night before because of the ripped up clothing. This is something most teenagers do, they go out to party much more than middle aged to older age groups so this allows the audience to question themselves 'could that happen to me' lending to the Thriller genre.

The clothes that Kourtney's wearing are despite being ripped and torn from the night before are in actual fact reasonably middle to upper class. As said before what we wanted to do was make the audience think 'could that happen to me?'. By deviating from the norm in Thriller films and having our characters usual normal teenagers this does just that. We felt that Thrillers nowadays use characters that are too unrealistic thus making it harder for the audience to bond with the piece of film in front of them.

Through research into Thrillers we noticed that there are few times when teenagers are used as the murderers. We wanted to challenge this so thus used myself as the killer. This allowed us to bond better with the audience due to them being able to relate to whats happening in front of them. The killer is a boy with the usual teenage angst, love and the ability to kill. This firmly seals our bond with our target group.

Overall i feel that is was a good group decision to target teenagers and to use teenagers as the characters. It makes the film stand out from others like it.